The poor and ill educated throughout history have looted art, destroyed history and burnt books. But the word "barbarian" here is for the people who started the war pre-emptively having been warned of the dangers to the cultural heritage and then didn't give a damn, didn't care a damn,and never will give a damn.The administration never told the men in the field to guard the museum and the library, they told them to guard the oil ministry!
Barbarians defend money, not culture and they've done it again.All good and caring and intelligent Americans will, I'm sure, feel that this is one of the blackest stains on their nation's history.